Four-part photobook American A B C D presents images from the archives of local and regional US newspapers from the 50s and 60s and invites contemporary photographers to make new work in response to this turbulent period in the nation’s history

Design historian and author Kerry Purcell has spent the past few years collecting posters, ephemera and photographs from the golden age of British wrestling. We talk to Purcell about the sport’s appeal and its place in UK visual culture

In illustrator and type designer Rian Hughes’ new graphic novel I Am A Number, everyone knows their place. Until they don’t. We speak to him about creating the book and the essential qualities of a great graphic novel

The new Animated Britain collection includes over 300 free-to-view animated films, from public information shorts to commercial TV work from the 1920s up to the present day. Here, we highlight five great pieces of work

Written and directed by Us – Christopher Barrett and Luke Taylor – short film Cautionary Tales has an awful lot going for it. It’s brilliantly made, very well cast and acted and has a touching idea at its heart that slowly reveals itself as the film works its surreal magic. “A bizarre incident as a […]

We can’t be sure but there may be something in the air to prompt Vintage’s republication of three classics of dystopian fiction – Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World – each complete with a cover illustration by Noma Bar. While Atwood’s novel was repackaged by Vintage […]

Mark Spencer has something of an usual job – he’s a Forensic Botanist who works with police and forensic departments on cases where an extensive knowledge of plants is key to the investigation. Spencer is apparently just one of two such practitioners working in the UK. Fieldwork Facility were asked to design an identity for […]

In Revisiting Postmodernism, Sir Terry Farrell and Adam Nathaniel Furman examine the dominant architectural movement that emerged between the late 1970s and early 1990s – and how its influence is still felt today. Here, we pick seven landmark projects from the book